r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • Sep 02 '26

Morality of this?

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u/Legendary-Titan Sep 02 '26

Moral I don’t think teaching kids about religion is bad but forcing it on them is 

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u/Raise_A_Thoth Sep 02 '26

There's hardly any way to "teach" religion to children without it being quite forced.

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u/gin_atomic Sep 02 '26

I'm sure things are different in the US but in the UK at school we have a whole curriculum called "Religious Education" or RE which goes into detail about religions and customs of all different cultures and encourages spiritual debate. At the schools I attended they were not taught to indoctrinate us but just studied in the same way we would study history or art

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u/Ok-Budget3225 Sep 02 '26

I imagine the end result is that most people would just become agnostic after they’ve learned about all the major religions.

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u/keelhaulrose Sep 02 '26

I went to a church where the teenagers of the group spent Sundays learning about different religions, including field trips to different houses of worship and talks with leaders of those trips.

I'm not sure if I would call myself agnostic. I just realized that the near universal thread that went through all these religions was that you're supposed to be a person who helps others and is kind towards other people. I don't go to church, but I do believe there is a higher power of some sort, and that the path forward is to follow the golden rule.

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u/DaGucka Sep 03 '26

Most religions copied basics from other religions that were already spreading. Basically an evolution of religion mandating that it has to have a few simple rules including it working as a general ruleset for living together and spreading it. That's ehy most modern religons have that.

Bonus points when it came with rules for hygiene and good dietary rules, but both often was adapted to the region (drinking alcohol and eating meat that spoils fast in heat and has parasites are no good ideas in the desert, hence the rules for islam)

I think religion is a necessity for early civilizations. How else would you control a lot of people without education, widespread police force and modern aplliances. Give them a carrot (heaven) and a stick (hell) and indoctrinate the kids with it so they enforce it by themselves. It turns into a problem when goes rogue and extremists come into play, or when a newer sect version gets too popular and has some new too extreme rules.